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Poetry Month 2016: Su Tung-P’o
Reading the Poetry of Meng Chiao Night: reading Meng Chiao’s poems, Characters fine as cow’s hair. By the cold lamp, my eyes blur and swim. Good passages I rarely fine— Lone flowers poking up from the mud— But more hard words than the Odes or Li sao— Jumbled rocks clogging the clear stream, Making rapids too swift for poling. My first impression is of eating little fishes— What you get’s not worth the trouble; Or of boiling tiny mud crabs And ending up with some empty claws.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
